I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.
Television is intensely personal.
When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.